Monthly Archives: March 2014

Google Analytics – 10 Pros & 5 Cons

Web Analytics is crucial for every website. Even for a small blog, it can open up a whole new world, once the blogger understands how visitors behave on the site. It’s not just about how many visitors does a website get, but to really understand where do they come from, what do they do there, and what visitors bring value to the website, and so on. An analytics program can reveal the answers to these and much much more. Most importantly analytics can help to save costs in the areas where money is being spent, but little or nothing is coming back in return, and more money can be allocated to the channel that yields the most.

Today there are many analytics software solutions available, such as Google Analytics, KISSmetrics and Clicky, to name few. Some of them cost money, some of them are free. There are pros and cons with both. This article digs into one of the free ones: Google Analytics. Google has done a good job in marketing their analytics, since it is probably the most well-known.

Google Analytics Pros

Google Analytics is one of my favorite tools, and I have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours with it.

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Inside 3D Printing New York 2014 Preview

While we are preparing for the Inside 3D Printing New York, I thought I’d write my views on what is to be expected. The show takes place 2-4 April at Javits Convention Center in New York City, and this year’s visitor numbers are estimated to be very high. This is definitely my 3D printing highlight show of the year.

Compared to last year, one of the new features for this year is The Maker Summit & Pavilion, which caters the DIY community. The Maker Pavilion is a special section of the trade show floor aimed for consumers, prosumers and makers. The Maker Summit is the conference part consisting of maker and new comer -aimed speaking sessions. As the home 3D printer market and DIY community are growing rapidly along the 3D printing industry, these two will surely be visitor magnets.

Another new add-on for this year’s edition is the workshop sessions that take place during the first day of the show. The workshops cover four topics this year:

Desktop 3D Printers – From Start to Finish,
From CAD to Scanning: Introduction to Design,
Reshaping Manufacturing: Understanding the 3D Printing Process
Tools of Creation and The Future of Retail

The workshops are a great way to gain more hands on experience about 3D printing, and I personally am the most interested to see how these will be received.

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The Death of Guest Blogging?

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Guest-Blogging-Tombstone

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Guest blogging, as it’s called, in exchange for a back link used to be one of the most popular way to get links after Google started to pay attention what kind of links the websites were getting, instead of just counting the number of the links, or purely relying on the Pagerank of the linking page.

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